Kentenich week in Zermatt Two years ago I told our pastor about the Kentenich year and the desire to make our founder, Father Joseph Kentenich, more internationally known on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death. The pastor was very open with regard to Zermatt: Why should we not call out a Kentenich […]
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“To pray together” The Pilgrim Shrine project had invited people to pray for peace in the world and in the many concerns of people today on the eve of the feast of the Annunciation. We Schoenstatt Adoration Sisters have joined in praying and meditating on the rosary with all who have accepted this invitation. We […]
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… in the Footsteps of Father Kentenich I would like to joyfully share my experience: a group of young people from different countries of the world lived here for a few weeks in Schoenstatt, in our holy places. It was a great gift for me to accompany them in these two months. The young women […]
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In joyful expectation, on Ash Wednesday, March 6, 2019, a colorful group of about sixty Schoenstatt members from the diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart set off in two flights on their way to Rome. They were priests from the Institute of Diocesan Priests, including their General Rector Dr. Löhr, Ladies of Schoenstatt, Sisters of Mary, women from […]
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After months of waiting and longing, the retreat center, House Schoenstatt, in Lamar, Texas, USA, could again open its doors for a full schedule of retreats and workshops. On August 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey devastated the city of Rockport, Texas, and the surrounding area including the beautiful property and buildings of the Confidentia Shrine. As […]
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DAY FOR THE SICK, AGED AND PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED SCHOENSTATT, CONSTANTIA Since the early seventies, that is, roughly 45 years ago, a “Day for the Sick, Aged and Physically-challenged” members of our Schoenstatt Family has been held each year in Schoenstatt, Constantia. The invitation has since been extended to anyone in the Archdiocese of Cape Town […]
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Founder -traces in Bad Ems A scholar from Switzerland once summed up his meetings with Father Kentenich in the following way: “He showed us what it means to no longer belong to yourself, but are light from the light. This light continues to shine in Schoenstatt. This light flares up every place where he lived, […]
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„VICTORIOUS” “God is victorious in the end. He is always victorious.” “We will only share in his victory to the extent that we allow God to be victorious in us.“
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“Do you know the land, the City of God … where truthfulness governs?” J. Kentenich, Home Song An impulse for vocational discernment In our day and age where relativism prevails everywhere, sometimes we may find ourselves echoing Pontius Pilate’s famous question: “What is truth?” Jesus himself has given us the answer: “I am the way, […]
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Echoes about Maria Rast, the Schoenstatt Center near Euskirchen, from visitors, seminar participants and volunteers The shrine in Maria Rast is the first daughter shrine on European soil. It is visited daily by many people. The seminar participants of a city administration who met here in Advent, said in the evening when saying goodbye: Thank […]
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